Apple Cider Making. Woods Cider Mill is located in Weathersfield, VT and online at: www.woodscidermill.com This Video was produced by McNaudio Media Solutions LLC at www.mcnaudio.com Music for this video is credited to: The Skillet Lickers from Goergia Recorded in the 1920’s Roots of American Fiddle V.1 – This Cider Mill was Featured during the knife fight scene in the movie “The Cider House Rules”
This 1910 photo shows the cleaning-up process after sugaring at what was then the Aldrich farmhouse. The Aldrich/Wood family has been making maple syrup here since the early 1800s, and apple cider, cider jelly, and boiled cider since 1882.
A series of video tutorials from Stephen Hayes of Fruitwise Heritage Apples all about restoring some old apple trees in an old garden newly taken over by some friends. The main problem with these trees was that they had originally been planted far too close together, the most common mistake of all.
We went to the New Forest Cider stall at Borough Market on Saturday morning. It’s always good to have a drink of the wonderful dry cider and a chat with Barry if he’s there. We picked up a small container of New Forest dry cider to take home and some organic vegetables from the market.
Thanks to Mark Shirley for sending in a link to this short video which provides a nice tour of the Lyne Down Cider and Perry Limited products and organic orchard.
Apple varieties mentioned are Stoke Red, Kingston Black, Yarlington Mill, Dabinet and Katy.
Are you keeping up to date with Stephen Hayes’ Fruitwise apple tree pruning Videos?
This latest one is all about summer pruning.
Summer pruning is a discretionary activity for orchard keepers, so you have to decide if it’s needed or not. Where a tree puts on a lot of new growth, then it’s worth thinning it out a bit but this will vary from season to season and from tree to tree. The best time is July or August, before the apples ripen to reduce apple scab damage and increase the light levels.
Only the smaller manageable trees can be pruned in this way, not the giants.
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